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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Monday, February fifth, and this is your Morning WIRE afternoon update.

Details of the long-awaited border bill being negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators were made public Sunday night. Daily Wire Senior Editor, Kabbit Phillips, has more.

The US Senate has unveiled its $118 billion border bill, but most of the money would go towards causes other than the border. Nearly half the funds, $60 billion, are earmarked for Ukraine, while another $14 billion will go to Israel, $2.4 billion for central command operations in the Red Sea, and nearly $5 billion for US allies facing Chinese aggression in the Pacific. The $20 billion allotted for border security includes $650 million for a border wall, along with stricter rules for claiming asylum. Welcome. On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he was hopeful the bill would pass, but it's facing steep opposition in the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson called it, Even worse than we expected, and Dead on arrival.

The Iran-backed militant group in Yemen women known as the Houthis, is threatening retaliation after US and British forces targeted several sites used by the group in strikes over the weekend. Muhammad Al-Bukhhaidi, a member of the Houthi Political Bureau, said Sunday, The attacks will not go unanswered, we will meet escalation with escalation. Meanwhile, Iran also condemned the various strikes, as well as the strikes against Iran's proxy groups and affiliated militias in Iraq and Syria, which came in response after three American soldiers were killed in a drone attack. According to the Iraqi government, the attacks killed dozens of fighters and several civilians. Here's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaking about both sets of strikes.

In the Red Sea, we need to deal with the threat to commercial shipping, and we are doing so with a coalition of countries. In Iraq and Syria, we need to deal with threats to our troops, and we are doing so, including what the strikes the President ordered Friday night.

Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, arrived today in Saudi Arabia as he works to broker a push for the release of hostages and an extended pause in the Israel Hamas war. Currently, a deal that was framed in Paris is being reviewed by both Israel and Hamas. During his trip, Lincoln is also set to visit Egypt, Qatar, Israel, and the West Bank. The secretary's trip, his fifth since the October seventh attack, takes place during a period that senior US officials describe as one of the most dangerous for the region in decades. As far as any movement on a hostage ceasefire deal, US officials say the ball is in Hamas's court.

A state of emergency has been declared in several parts of Southern California as a powerful atmospheric river-fueled storm is knocking out power and posing flood threats in the region. All schools in Malibu have been closed due to road closures affecting some 9,000 1,000 students. Up to 10 inches of rain has been reported in the LA area. In one instance, a landslide brought down an entire house in Los Angeles' Beverly Crest neighborhood. Here's what nearby residents told Fox 11 News.

There's an unoccupied house that just went on sale, and they took it off the market. But the whole hillside came down, shoved the house into our road here and up against our neighbor's porch and driveway, and it trapped a few people. Actually, our friend Dave is still trapped with his girlfriend up there.

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Seventy-five-year-old King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer. Buckingham Palace made the announcement this morning, noting that it was discovered during the King's recent hospital stay. The palace says King Charles started a schedule of regular treatments, during which time he has been advised to postpone public-facing duties.

San Francisco's mayor, London Breed, is advocating to add two controversial proposals to the March fifth ballot. The first would require single adults on welfare to be screened for drug use. The second would allow the use of police drone surveillance. Breed is up for re-election in November.

Dartmouth College is now the first Ivy League to announce that it will bring back the SAT. Daily Wire Culture reporter, Megan Basham, breaks down the details of the school's policy reversal.

The New Hampshire School says research found that test scores are an important predictor of a student's success at highly selective schools like the Ivy League, and a better predictor of success than grade point average, regardless of a student's background or family income. The requirement was dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic, and amid complaints by activists that standardize tests are racially biased. But, citing a very comprehensive research study by a group of faculty, the school's leadership has announced that it's bringing back standardized testing requirements for students applying to be members of the class of 2029.

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, confirmed today that it plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce that amounts to some 500 people. A Snap spokesperson told USA Today, We are reorganizing our team to reduce hierarchy and promote in-person collaboration. Several other tech companies, including Microsoft and Google, have started the new year by slashing jobs despite generally solid job numbers in January.

Taylor Swift picked up two Grammy Awards last night for Best Pop, vocal and for Album of the Year. She made history as the only artist to ever win four albums of the Year. Hip hop star Jay Zee was honored with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award. He used his acceptance speech to call out the Recording Academy for never giving his wife, Beyoncé, an Album of the Year win.

I don't want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never won an album of the Year. So even by your own metrics, that doesn't work.

Think about that.

Most Grammys never won an album of the Year.

That doesn't work. Victoria Monet walked away with the award for Best New Artist. Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus came in like a wrecking ball and got the award for Record of the Year for her song, flowers.

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